Sophie Monk is making baby plans and denies 'Instagram break-up' with Stu Laundy

By Aja Styles

Updated6 February 2018 — 7:31pmfirst published at 7:30pm

Former Bachelorette star Sophie Monk may have publicly poured her heart out about her break up with Stu Laundy on Instagram, but the entertainer denies his claims that it was the first that he had heard of it.

The couple, who were partnered up on the Network Ten dating series which concluded on air in October last year, spent Christmas and New Year's together in Canada but that's when Monk said it officially ended.

"I think when you go on holiday with someone you really get to know someone and it was just yeah, it got to the point that, again all I can say is that we're just very different people."

Sophie Monk talking to A Current Affair reporter Leila McKinnon.

Photo: Nine

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She said they clashed because they had "different morals" and she ended it in Canada.

"So you spoke about breaking up?" McKinnon asked Monk, to which she replied: "Of course, yeah. I'm not just going to announce it on Instagram!"

She said that she was disappointed in what Laundy had to say about it. "I sort of found out via Instagram, but we both knew in our hearts it was pushing toward a friendship," the 45-year-old multi-millionaire told Nova radio's Fitzy and Wippa last month.

Monk also burst into tears when asked what the past few months had been like. But now she has plans of making her dream of being a mother into a reality.

Sophie Monk with Stu Laundy on The Bachelorette.

Photo: Stuart Bryce

"I'd love to be a mum, I think I'm going to have to freeze eggs at this point which I'm willing to do and I'm looking into right now," she said.

"... I've made a plan, it's just the injections and all that stuff, fitting into the schedule.

The pair said they were a couple despite constant reports to the contrary.

Her sister Lucy, who has three children and one on the way, supports her plans.

Sophie Monk pours her heart out once again for the cameras on ACA.

Photo: Nine

"I think she'd much prefer to be married, settle down, and have children," Lucy said. "[But] I definitely think she's got to do it (freeze her eggs). I just think... it will take so much pressure off her, because I'm sure that it occupies a lot of her thoughts. I'm all for it."

Monk has to find time while preparing to host Nine's new dating show Love Island.

"She works incredibly hard and she has put that before everything else and I think now it's time that she really works towards the things that she really, really wants," says her sister.

Monk said she did believe she had the fairytale ending with Laundy despite all the misgivings on the show about his being married and having had a vasectomy.

"I mean they're all fixable, so yeah I was just hoping and he was just the person I had a connection with," she said. "I gave it my best shot, I didn't go in this half-arsed, I went in full and ready to commit."

But it was what occurred after the show that broke them apart, especially a socially awkward kiss at Sydney airport in November.

"Every day I was getting burnt for not being affectionate. So there's paparazzi at the airport and I was like 'kiss me'. I was like 'I know this is weird, just kiss me – we've got to do it!' And it backfired again and I was like I can't win, I cannot win.

"But I definitely did that for the paparazzi, I could see them and I was like I'll give you anything."

When asked "did you hang in there longer than you should have because of the pressure?" Monk replied: "You know what I did – but not because anyone asked me to, I wanted it to work for everyone."

She said things took a turn for the worse after the show. "It's like once you got out into the real world, and then I just realised, we're so different, you know, you're in a bubble and when you come out of that, and we're very different people."

Despite being pressed about how her and Laundy were so different, Monk refused to elaborate. "I'd love to – but... It's so hard because I do feel that I owe them a proper explanation but I've got to protect people around me."

She denied the relationship was ever about Laundy's money and said she'd happily settle down with a tradie.

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"I believe in fairytales still… I love love," Monk told McKinnon.

"I still think like Cinderella that that will happen one day, hopefully it will."